Anthony Warlow is a genius, fantastic voice and a really superb actor too. Terrific in G&S but also a real,hero of Les Miserables and many other operas and musicals.
This has to be my favorite performance by far. I love the modern dress and how they dressed it up like a tabloid scandal, plus, I love how the performers seemed to just have fun with the material and include so many gags at every level. I was rolling in laughter during my first viewing.
Hard to believe but I played the Gentle Simple Minded Usher way back in the mid sixties. Even funnier, I remembered most of it. Thanks for letting me relive my youth with this wonderful production.
Compared to the way a lot of people play it, Warlow also gets the "dirty old man" aspect right enough here you can BELIEVE he's the kind of man who would marry someone just to get ahead, then dump her as soon as he made it good. That's supposed to be the point of the last stanza of his song; he's TOTALLY unqualified to be impartial on this case, because he did the EXACT same thing as the plaintiff. A lot of performances give the judge too much dignity, Warlow has gotten that, whatever his rank may be now, he is far from an honorable or moral person.
Wonderful! More please. I live on a small island off coast of Scotland and it’s very difficult to get away to the city for performances. This is such a treat. Thank you ❤
Anthony Warlow is extraordinary as the judge. Many won't realise it is the same person playing the captain in Pinafore and the Pirate King in Pirates.. This video is amazing. Unlike the accompanying Pinafore (same night and still very good) the casting here is perfect which makes for a top notch production. It goes to show how hard G&S is to pull off: you need an ensemble of great singers but also other parts where the singing needs to be highly competent but not exceptional but with excellent comic acting ability. One poorly cast role (no criticism of individuals intended) can weaken the whole show - but not the case here: the cast bounce off each other both musically and comically
Apparently AW requested and fought for the cast as it was in the performance. I personally think the entire cast were perfect for their roles. This is meant to be a comedy with great actors. I do understand where you’re coming from, though.
Wow! I loved it! Especially Angelina's movie star entrance. The first time I saw this was in the early 1960s when the Harvard G&S Society presented it at MIT. I like some of the word substitutions, like "Packers" instead of "Gurneys". But I don't understand: "Will you swear by yonder skies" being replaced by "Will you swear by God's right hand" at 13:00. The change removes a rhyme, which, to me, makes the original preferable.
Yes, I immediately noticed that line. Hardly plausible that Gilbert would have gotten away with something as taboo as invoking the name of God in a comic opera of all things! Why they felt the need to do that I don't know...
I've always loved this song! On my 44th birthday, I kept quietly cracking up as I heard in my mind that line "She may very well pass for 43 in the dusk with a light behind her"!
12:54 For some strange reason, they changed the line from: _Oh, will you swear by yonder skies, [...]_ to _Oh, will you swear by God's right hand [...]"; a line, mind, that's hardly plausible as something Gilbert would've wrote given how taboo it would have been to invoke the name of God so frivolously in a comic opera of all things! Why they felt the need to make that change, I don't know...
I have the DVD with subtitles and this STEM vs STERN is due to the pixelated fonts being too close together -- "stern" may very well pass for "stem" in the dusk with a light behind her. ;-)
Thank you so much for providing this performance! Please upload the 1995 Australian performance of Patience if you have it! I really hope this or any other uploads don't get taken down 😅
@@SIER101 Yes! Sucks that there won't be any subtitles ig but viewers could always just pull up the libretto assuming there aren't many changes made by the production and I'm sure more people would appreciate the upload rather than complain. Subtitles clutter the screen anyway. Still, I would understand if you ultimately opt not to upload it---I don't want to see your channel get taken down for copyright infringement😂 Best of luck in any case!
YT says the owner allowed it and it won't affect my channel so I don't think there's would be any problems here's Patience from 1995 Opera Australia: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OVczrZAWc_4.html maybe in a day or two YT will generated subtitle for it in case if you needed
*@user-mc9bu:* I have the DVD-- no subtitles. I bought a book on Amazon that has the words for every G&S operetta. It also explains some of the more obscure words & references that were common knowledge in Victorian times.
I'm assuming the reason no one laughed when he talked about his pecker is because this is Australia (and it was written in Britain) and not America where it has a different meaning,
One of the "officers of the court'" gave a puzzled look when "pecker" was brought up. I figured it didn't have the same meaning in Victorian times as it does here in the US today. 😉🤣
It is most unjust towards Gilbert to speak of Gilbert and Sullivan as equals. Sullivan is nothing without Gilbert, as his Ivanhoe , one of the most dreadfully dull of all operas, shows. Gilbert is a first rate comic poet, one might ay a comic genius. Sullivan is an average to mediocre composer. Gilbert's lyrics raise his tunes above the average, but very few people can distinguish between the two. Sullivan's music is not even original. If anything, it resembles nondescript early Verdi. The fact that Queen Victoria knighted Sullivan but not Gilbert shows her lack of taste; it is a knighthood based on politics, not art, for she found his political satire offensive (unlike his audience). I am neither English, nor an Anglophile, but I am objective enough to recognise the genius of Gilbert and the mediocrity of Sullivan. Glbert deserved much better.
I hate you! Verdi's early operas are the main reason I like bel canto opera, and people come to hear Sullivan's great jaunty music, not obscure lyrics which are usually not even understandable.
@rogerpropes7129 A rather strong reaction to a simple opinion. Don't you think that hatred is rather over the top? Be assured, I do not hate you. But Oberto, Un giorno di regno and Il Corsaro are hardly top drawer. And, I will grant you, to so unmusical nation as the British, Sullivan must seem like very heaven. Remember that Handel, a German, said that the British were incapable of understanding counterpoint, and liked a jolly good tune. So perhaps Sullivan was just right - for the British. But for other musically advanced nations like the Germans, Italians or Russians - Sullivan is a bit of a poor fish!
@@phillipvietri8786 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wrrywcS2Ok4.html A foretaste of what was to come, written at 29 while his wife and children were dying of cholera--sheer genius. Do not lead others into the temptation of ignoring early Verdi!
You do seem to agree with me that Sullivan is a pretty indifferent composer. Verdi went on to do very great things, such as Rigoletto, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino and all the subsequent masterpieces show. Sullivan never wrote anything remotely as great as these.
@@phillipvietri8786 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TPqw3kJiU6I.html This is my favorite by SIR Arthur Sullivan, I'm sure Mozart, Rossini, and especially Wagner(!) would have envied it, and Verdi surely enjoyed it; also SIR Arthur himself would have smiled at this version.
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